Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

The Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan, non-profit institution that seeks to achieve its mission of increased government transparency by funding and building web-based technologies.

The Foundation is governed by a six-person board of directors, and its advisors include Jimmy Wales, Yochai Benkler and Lawrence Lessig. It is funded by donation, and all of their donors — from corporations to individuals to philanthropic institutions — are made public, along with the size of their gift. Sunlight has reported over 800 million requests for their data, and says their original reporting has led to significant alterations to congressional proceedings.

Vox Media is an online media company that includes the sports blog network SB Nation, tech site The Verge, and the explanatory journalism site Vox. Vox Media was formally formed in 2011, but it began with the creation of SB Nation (short for SportsBlog Nation), a network of more than 300 fan-run sports blogs, many of them dedicated…

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